XPost: linux.debian.policy 
 From: spwhitton@spwhitton.name 
  
 Hello, 
  
 On Fri 15 Aug 2025 at 09:07pm +02, Ben Hutchings wrote: 
  
 > On Fri, 2025-08-15 at 10:20 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: 
 > [...] 
 >> I think the point of the bug report is that we should consider adding a 
 >> keyword like "license-text" to the standard to allow explicitly tagging 
 >> such files without having each person come up with their own. 
 > 
 > Exactly. 
 > 
 > [...] 
 >> I'm not sure they should have their own license block, since the whole 
 >> point is that we're ignoring them. Maybe there should be a new field that 
 >> lists ignored files that don't need to be documented in debian/copyright 
 >> for whatever reason? Although I'm not sure this generalizes; I can't 
 >> off-hand think of another case besides license texts. 
 > 
 > I think copyright/license information is precisely the special case that 
 > does merit special treatment in debian/copyright. 
 > 
 >> I suppose that mechanism could be a Lintian override, and that's not a bad 
 >> answer here. Maybe this case is uncommon enough that an override would be 
 >> fine and it's overkill to add a field? 
 > 
 > I've gone with overrides for now, but I would prefer to have a proper 
 > way to document these files. 
  
 Yes, this would be better. 
  
 -- 
 Sean Whitton 
  
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